WARNEMUENDE HARBOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200340007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Warnemuende Harbor
DATE. OF
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DATE DISTR. 13 March 1953
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1. Source's ship together with a Swedish ferry, put into the Warnemuende
harbor at 7:30 a.m. and docked alongside the warehouse. The Warnemuende
harbor zone was fenced-in and could be entered or left only through a
police warded gate. Ships arriving in port were searched by a customs
and police commission composed of one VP officer, a Soviet NCO, several
VP's and customs officials. The Germans and the Russians were identical uni-
forms except for the black-red-yellow cockade on the caps of the Germans
and the Soviet star on the caps of the Russians. While the ship was being
examined, the entire ship's crew had to gather on deck under the supervision
of a VP. The Soviet N 80 watched the VPs and the customs officials during
this examination. West German newspapers and illustrated papers were sealed.
by the customs officials. Permits authorizing the holders to go ashore only
inside the Warnemuende restricted area until 11 p.m. were issued to the
crew menbers upon completion of the searching of the ship and an examination
if the passport. The captain of source's ship was not allowed to visit
relatives in Rostock. The supervision of the crew was not very effective
as several crew members managed to go to Rostock without a permit. They
were not halted.
2. The Dutch motor coaster SARAGOSSA at the same time unloaded paper bales,
steel cables, salted hides, pipes of various diameters, and sheet iron
which, according to the German inscription on the wooden,boxes, was
1,600 x 1,800 mm large and 14 mm and 6mm thick. Part of this cargo was
unloaded into the warehouse, and part of it was loaded on railroad cars.
A VP sentry was on guard in front of the SARAGOSSA.
3. As the War nemuende shipyard waa surrounded by a wooden fence, the shipyard
area. was blocked from view. Source noticed the hulls of the former Hapag
ships HAMBURG and HANSA and the former North German Lloyd steamer Berlin. 1
The noise of pneumatic hammers indicted that work oh tiese ships was in
progress day and night. A white painted Soviet passanger steamer named
PETR VELIKI according to a Warnemuende resident was in the shipyard.
She CLASS1ort wh lNe source's ship was still in Warnemuende. 2
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a ne Dri,lU,,LN were given the Soviet named
YURI, DOLCORUKI, SOVETSKI SOYUZ and ASTIRAL NAKIUAOV.
departure was set for 13 October 1952, the Activists' Day.
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